[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 141 (Monday, September 8, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8131-S8133]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 223

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 223, a bill to require 
Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in 
electronic form.


                                 S. 261

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 261, a bill to amend title 
18, United States Code, to strengthen prohibitions against animal 
fighting, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 268

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Baucus) was added as a cosponsor of S. 268, a bill to designate 
the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 316

  At the request of Mr. Kohl, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 316, a bill to prohibit 
brand name drug companies from compensating generic drug companies to 
delay the entry of a generic drug into the market.


                                 S. 400

  At the request of Mr. Sununu, the names of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 400, a bill to amend the Employee Retirement 
Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
ensure that dependent students who take a medically necessary leave of 
absence do not lose health insurance coverage, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 561

  At the request of Mr. Bunning, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Voinovich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 561, a bill to repeal the 
sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 
with respect to the expansion of the adoption credit and adoption 
assistance programs.


                                 S. 686

  At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the names of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 686, a bill to amend the National Trails 
System Act to designate the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route 
National Historical Trail.


                                 S. 727

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 727, a bill to 
improve and expand geographic literacy among kindergarten through grade 
12 students in the United States by improving professional development 
programs for kindergarten through grade 12 teachers offered through 
institutions of higher education.


                                 S. 826

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the 
Senator from New York (Mrs. Clinton), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. 
Mikulski), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from 
Idaho (Mr. Crapo) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 826, a bill to posthumously award a Congressional gold 
medal to Alice Paul, in recognition of her role in the women's suffrage 
movement and in advancing equal rights for women.


                                 S. 860

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 860, a bill to 
amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States the option 
to provide Medicaid coverage for low-income individuals infected with 
HIV.


                                 S. 988

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Webb) was added as a cosponsor of S. 988, a bill to extend the 
termination date for the exemption of returning workers from the 
numerical limitations for temporary workers.


                                S. 1003

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1003, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to 
emergency medical services and the quality and efficiency of care 
furnished in emergency departments of hospitals and critical access 
hospitals by establishing a bipartisan commission to examine factors 
that affect the effective delivery of such services, by providing for 
additional payments for certain physician services furnished in such 
emergency departments, and by establishing a Centers for Medicare & 
Medicaid Services Working Group, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1141

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1141, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employees not covered by 
qualified retirement plans to save for retirement through automatic 
payroll deposit IRAs, to facilitate similar saving by the self-
employed, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1169

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1169, a bill 
to ensure the provision of high quality health care coverage for 
uninsured individuals through State health care coverage pilot projects 
that expand coverage and access and improve quality and efficiency in 
the health care system.


                                S. 1328

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1328, a bill to amend the 
Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate discrimination in the 
immigration laws by permitting permanent partners of United States 
citizens and lawful permanent residents to obtain lawful permanent 
resident status in the same manner as spouses of citizens and lawful 
permanent residents and to penalize immigration fraud in connection 
with permanent partnerships.


                                S. 1410

  At the request of Mr. Coleman, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1410, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax 
for the purchase of hearing aids.


                                S. 1492

  At the request of Mr. Inouye, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1492, a bill to 
improve the quality of federal and state data regarding the 
availability and quality of broadband services and to promote the 
deployment of affordable broadband services to all parts of the Nation.


                                S. 1556

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1556, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the exclusion from gross income 
for employer-provided health coverage to designated plan beneficiaries 
of employees, and for other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Smith, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) 
and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1556, supra.


                                S. 1755

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1755, a bill to amend the 
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to make permanent the 
summer food service pilot project for rural areas of Pennsylvania and 
apply the program to rural areas of every State.


                                S. 1906

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1906, a bill to 
understand and comprehensively address the oral health problems 
associated with methamphetamine use.


                                S. 2052

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from New 
York

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(Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2052, a bill to allow for 
certiorari review of certain cases denied relief or review by the 
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.


                                S. 2505

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2505, a bill 
to allow employees of a commercial passenger airline carrier who 
receive payments in a bankruptcy proceeding to roll over such payments 
into an individual retirement plan, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2510

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the names of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Brownback) and the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 2510, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act 
to provide revised standards for quality assurance in screening and 
evaluation of gynecologic cytology preparations, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2619

  At the request of Mr. Coburn, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Martinez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2619, a bill to protect 
innocent Americans from violent crime in national parks.


                                S. 2668

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2668, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove cell phones from listed 
property under section 280F.


                                S. 2682

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2682, a bill to direct 
United States funding to the United Nations Population Fund for certain 
purposes.


                                S. 2686

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2686, a bill to ensure that 
all users of the transportation system, including pedestrians, 
bicyclists, and transit users as well as children, older individuals, 
and individuals with disabilities, are able to travel safely and 
conveniently on streets and highways.


                                S. 2781

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2781, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase the per resident payment 
floor for direct graduate medical education payments under the Medicare 
program.


                                S. 2875

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2875, a bill to authorize 
the Secretary of the Interior to provide grants to designated States 
and tribes to carry out programs to reduce the risk of livestock loss 
due to predation by gray wolves and other predator species or to 
compensate landowners for livestock loss due to predation.


                                S. 2883

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mrs. Hutchison) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2883, a bill to require 
the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the 
centennial of the establishment of Mother's Day.


                                S. 2899

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2899, a bill 
to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a study on 
suicides among veterans.


                                S. 2913

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Bennett) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2913, a bill to provide a 
limitation on judicial remedies in copyright infringement cases 
involving orphan works.


                                S. 2932

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2932, a bill to amend 
the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the poison center national 
toll-free number, national media campaign, and grant program to provide 
assistance for poison prevention, sustain the funding of poison 
centers, and enhance the public health of people of the United States.


                                S. 2990

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. 
Reid) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2990, a bill to amend title XVIII 
of the Social Security Act to improve access of Medicare beneficiaries 
to intravenous immune globulins.


                                S. 3140

  At the request of Mr. Webb, the name of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. 
Inouye) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3140, a bill to provide that 4 
of the 12 weeks of parental leave made available to a Federal employee 
shall be paid leave, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3187

  At the request of Mr. Hagel, the names of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 3187, a bill to establish a comprehensive 
interagency response to reduce lung cancer mortality in a timely 
manner.


                                S. 3209

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3209, a bill 
to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to clarify the 
filing period applicable to charges of discrimination, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 3237

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3237, a bill to assist 
volunteer fire companies in coping with the precipitous rise in fuel 
prices.


                                S. 3246

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Hatch), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Coleman) and the Senator from 
Iowa (Mr. Grassley) were added as cosponsors of S. 3246, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Secretary of the 
Treasury to set the standard mileage rate for use of a passenger 
automobile for purposes of the charitable contributions deduction.


                                S. 3252

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Vermont (Mr. 
Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3252, a bill to amend the 
Consumer Credit Protection Act, to ban abusive credit practices, 
enhance consumer disclosures, protect underage consumers, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 3263

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, his name was added as a cosponsor 
of S. 3263, a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 
through 2013 to promote an enhanced strategic partnership with Pakistan 
and its people, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3299

  At the request of Mr. Ensign, the names of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. McCaskill) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 3299, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, 
to extend the demonstration project on adjustable rate mortgages and 
the demonstration project on hybrid adjustable rate mortgages.


                                S. 3308

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Bayh) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 3308, a bill to require the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to permit facilities of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs to be designated as voter registration agencies, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 3317

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3317, a bill to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 West 
Main Street in Waterville, New York, as the ``Corporal John P. Sigsbee 
Post Office''.


                                S. 3331

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Coleman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3331, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that the payment of the 
manufacturers' excise tax on recreational equipment be paid quarterly.


                                S. 3362

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Colorado

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(Mr. Salazar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3362, a bill to 
reauthorize and improve the SBIR and STTR programs, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 3367

  At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Conrad) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3367, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to revise the timeframe 
for recognition of certain designations in certifying rural health 
clinics under the Medicare program.


                                S. 3380

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the names of the Senator from New 
York (Mr. Schumer), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) and 
the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) were added as cosponsors of S. 
3380, a bill to promote increased public transportation use, to promote 
increased use of alternative fuels in providing public transportation, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 3384

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Voinovich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3384, a bill to amend section 
11317 of title 40, United States Code, to require greater 
accountability for cost overruns on Federal IT investment projects.


                                S. 3401

  At the request of Mr. Graham, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. McConnell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3401, a bill to provide 
for habeas corpus review for terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, 
Cuba, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3403

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Salazar) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 3403, a bill to amend title 49, United 
States Code, to require determination of the maximum feasible fuel 
economy level achievable for cars and light trucks for a year based on 
a projected fuel gasoline price that is not less than the applicable 
high gasoline price projection issued by the Energy Information 
Administration.


                                S. 3414

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3414, a bill 
to recapture family-sponsored and employment-based immigrant visas lost 
to bureaucratic delays and to prevent losses of family-sponsored and 
employment-based immigrant visas in the future, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3429

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the names of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mrs. Dole), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and 
the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) were added as cosponsors of 
S. 3429, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an 
increased mileage rate for charitable deductions.


                                S. 3437

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3437, a bill 
to limit the use of certain interrogation techniques, to require 
notification of the International Committee of the Red Cross of 
detainees, to prohibit interrogation by contractors, and for other 
purposes.


                            S. CON. RES. 86

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the names of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Feingold) were added as 
cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 86, a concurrent resolution expressing the 
sense of Congress that the United States, through the International 
Whaling Commission, should use all appropriate measures to end 
commercial whaling in all of its forms and seek to strengthen measures 
to conserve whale species.


                            S. CON. RES. 87

  At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Obama) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 87, a concurrent 
resolution congratulating the Republic of Latvia on the 90th 
anniversary of its declaration of independence.


                              S. RES. 580

  At the request of Mr. Bayh, the name of the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. 
Barrasso) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 580, a resolution 
expressing the sense of the Senate on preventing Iran from acquiring a 
nuclear weapons capability.


                              S. RES. 619

  At the request of Mr. Sessions, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 619, a 
resolution expressing support for a constructive dialogue on human 
rights issues between the United States and Bahrain.


                              S. RES. 640

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Feingold) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) were 
added as cosponsors of S. Res. 640, a resolution expressing the sense 
of the Senate that there should be an increased Federal commitment to 
public health and the prevention of diseases and injuries for all 
people in the United States.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 4979

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the names of the Senator 
from Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the 
Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Coleman), the Senator from New York (Mr. 
Schumer) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune) were added as 
cosponsors of amendment No. 4979 intended to be proposed to S. 3001, an 
original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes.

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